That Someone Who Truly Writes Poem by RIC BASTASA

ultimately
we thought we write

trying to please
the reader

it is not actually
the case

someone is looking
for a cure
to his madness

someone is finding
a way to calm the
storm

someone is looking
for an opening
from an enclosure

someone is inside
a labyrinth trying
to figure out the
way to exit

someone is on fire
shouting for a fireman

someone is lost in
the desert
waiting for the caravan

someone is burning
andno one is seeing

someone is dead
years ago and no one remembers

someone is murdered
no one is caught

all these, all these
people
are the ones that
truly write.